NetApp Ansible Automation Lab

Solution overview

To keep up with the growing speed of business demands, there's a pressing need to make programmability and automation an inherent part of operational IT processes. WWT offers hands-on Ansible Automation Training labs to help customers learn how to get started using centralized automation tools to manage and deploy configurations.

Lab diagram

Goals and objectives

The purpose of this lab is to provide hands-on training to storage engineers on how to start automating NetApp storage infrastructure.

When you have successfully completed the lab you will have learned:

The Basics GIT operations, and how you can use that to share and collaborate with your team.
The Basics of using Ansible.
Securing secrets in Ansible with Ansible Vault.
Leveraging pre-built reusable Ansible Roles to accelerate automation development within Ansible.

Hardware and software

Ansible
NetApp ONTAP
RHEL
Windows Servers
VS Code
GitLab

Contributors

Corey Wanless

Technical Solutions Architect

Bryan Peroutka

Tech Solutions Arch II, ATC